Life in Love Lane: Laura

 Most days Marjorie is visited by Linda who comes to tell her of the exploits of her grand-daughter, Laura.  Laura got ten out of ten.  Laura came top of the class.  Laura passed this exam or that exam.  Laura...

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If God doesn’t exist s(h)e damn well ought to…

For another year  we say goodbye to the bluebells, those lakes of wonder, with sorrow.  Their appearance each May, so silently their footfall is not heard, so shily and modestly their coming is hardly seen, is so miraculous, such...

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Looking at bluebells in a wood

 When we look at the structure of a cell under the microscope our intellects are astonished at the wonder of it.  But when we see bluebells in a wood our emotions are ravished, as when we hear the slow...

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you should go vegan because…

You should be go vegan because  (1) iindustrialized meat and dairy are major drivers of climate change (an area of Amazon forest the size of Belgium is being destroyed every year to grow soya.  Slow grown beef though is...

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Contemplative prayer is the most meaningful…

 Contemplative prayer is the most meaningful thing that can happen to a human being as anybody who has seriously practised it will testify.  Hence why people will give up sex, love, family, children, home and wealth in order to...

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The Girl at the Bank

The Girl at the BankSeparate, removed, behind the glass Blouse neatly ironed, skirt tight but not Too much so, the tie tied casually aroundHer throat somehow disturbingly sexual, Her tumbling hair abundant and profuse, She is astonishingly beautiful, I...

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O my noble lords methane is the worst of all fossil fuels

O my most noble and misguided lords, methane is the worst of all fossil fuele because of the methane emissions.  Have you read the Cornell, Harvard and Tyndall reports on fracking?  Perhaps not. These are the only serious scientific...

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I am deeply fed up with bishops.

I am deeply fed up with bishops.  You can understand that secularist rationalists are blindly walking, nay running, towards the abyss into which so many scientists say mankind will fall if we don’t make the most strenuous efforts to...

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My Lord and my God

My Lord and my GodIf David Hume had been in the roomWearing head most philosophicalWhen Christ appeared to doubting ThomasAnd Thomas put his fingers in the woundsAnd said 'I believe! My lord and God!' Would Hume have thought 'Well this...

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‘Look ‘ere lady’ I said ‘ clean up that dog muck…

'Look 'ere lady' I said 'clean up that dog muck in front of my front door''Oh' she said 'it's not my dog''Oo's is it then?' I said 'the Pope's?'Conversation in the back of the car on the way to...

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